ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 161610
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| Date: | Saturday 13 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:09 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LW682 |
| MSN: | OW-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Pijlekaartstraat, Schendelbeke, East Flanders -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
| Leuven |
Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 22:11 hrs to bomb the railway yards at Leuven. The target was attacked between 00:28 and 00:35 Local Time. LW6882 was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes (Kommandeur of the III./NJG 1), who had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands at 23:49 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DS; This was his 34th victory.
Crashed at Schendelbeke (Oost-Vlaanderen) on the west bank of the River Dender approximately 3 km NNE of Geraardsbergen in Belgium, where five of the dead are buried in the communal cemetery.
Three, Pilot Officer Bentz RCAF, Sgt Summerhayes RCAF and Pilot Officer Roach RCAF have no known graves. Flt Sgt Arbour was manning the mid-under gun position.
Crew
Pilot Officer W B Bentz RCAF Croix de Guerre (Belguim) avec Palme (KIA)
Sgt R Ellerslie (KIA)
Flying Officer T W Taylor RCAF (KIA)
Flying Officer C S Phillips RCAF (KIA)
Warrant Officer 1 J E McIntyre RCAF (KIA)
Flight Sgt J E J G Arbour RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J W Summerhayes RCAF (KIA)
Sgt F Roach RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 225.
2. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/bentz-wilbur.html
3. http://users.telenet.be/airwareurope/en/bergingen/halifax_lw682_e.htm
4. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
5. http://www.426sqdn.ca/remembrances/halifax_lw682.html
6. Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 November 1944 | NP696 | 426 (Thunderbird) Sqn RCAF | 0 | B.58 Melsbroek Airfield, Flemish Brabant | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Oct-2013 16:20 | gerard57 | Added |
| 05-Mar-2014 14:28 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 25-May-2015 18:46 | Tu104 | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 12-Jun-2016 15:22 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2017 23:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Aug-2020 15:01 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jun-2022 21:37 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 09-Nov-2022 01:55 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 07-May-2023 07:23 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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